(1) (psychoanalysis
(1) The father is the model for the superego
(2) This sense of conscience-whether individually internalized or mandated by a collective consciousness-forces the superego to engage in battle with the harsh aggressiveness that the ego would like to inflict upon others.
(3) His need for order, form, and tradition is a substitute for the id impulses that are repressed by his strong superego .
(4) Freud approaches this situation by way of the model of the primeval id set against the cultivations of the superego ; Marcuse counterpoints the libidinous Eros impulse against the regulating structures of Civilisation.
(5) True schizophrenias lack the superego elements present in paranoia
(6) Normally, if I wanted to rob a bank, the superego or conscience would force a delay, and the trigger is the anxiety [I would feel] in anticipation of doing something wrong.
(7) This is in no small way directly attributable to the never-ending battle between my three psychosocial building blocks, in which my id and ego battle the superego for supremacy in times of woe, happiness and all between.
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